Enough Is Enough

I was looking at one of my favorite sites this morning when I found this, from this post.

H/T Wizbang

The Iraqi police have investigated a case in the village of al-Mudhariya, which is just south of Baghdad. The villagers there say that before the election insurgents came and warned them that if they voted in last weekend's election, they would pay.

Now the people of this mixed village of Sunni and Shia Muslims, they ignored the threat and they did turn out to vote.

We understand that last night the insurgents came back to punish the people of al-Mudhariya, but instead of metering out that punishment the villagers fought back and they killed five of the insurgents and wounded eight. They then burnt the insurgents' car. So the people of that village have certainly had enough of the insurgents....

It would appear that people are getting sick of the insurgency. I understand, though, that this is the first report of Iraqis confronting insurgents and actually fighting back in such a way.

But certainly many people here see the insurgency as the work of foreigners who want to turn their country into some sort of Islamic state, like Afghanistan under the Talbian.

And a couple of days ago we spoke to some voters in central Baghdad and every one of them basically said that they'd like the insurgents to stop their bombing and shooting attacks. Some even said they'd voted just to send a message to the insurgents that they would not be frightened any more.

Wow, that is not only awesome, but amazing!!! *Thumbs nose at MSM*

The Iraqi people got a big bite of the freedom burger and they like what they are tasting. Democracy will spread in the Middle East. The drive to be free ultimately toppled the Soviet Union and I know it will also topple many of the radical Islamic states.

That's several days in a row, with "I told you so" in the headlines. First the extremely successful Iraqi elections, and now stories of heroism from within.

*walking away, humming... we're not gonna take it! no! we ain't gonna take it! we're not gonna take it ANYMORE!* (Damn it Beth, you got this stuck in my head)

SlagleRock Out!

Delftsman shares his thoughts on this!

Posted by SlagleRock at February 4, 2005 08:31 AM